. The Victoria history of the county of Lancaster;. Natural history. LEYLAND HUNDRED CHORLEY. Chorley Commissioners,' and is now held by the Corporation. A court leet .-ind baron was held until i8z8. The surname Gillibrand occurs in several places in South Lancashire,^ but nothing is known of the origin of the Chorley branch. The earliest to occur is one Hum- phrey Gillibrand, who about 1430 was holding a small por- tion of the ' land by a rent of 4rt'.' Thomas Gillibrand purchased a mes- suage in Chorley in 1563,'' but the name is not recorded among the freeholders in 1600. Soon
. The Victoria history of the county of Lancaster;. Natural history. LEYLAND HUNDRED CHORLEY. Chorley Commissioners,' and is now held by the Corporation. A court leet .-ind baron was held until i8z8. The surname Gillibrand occurs in several places in South Lancashire,^ but nothing is known of the origin of the Chorley branch. The earliest to occur is one Hum- phrey Gillibrand, who about 1430 was holding a small por- tion of the ' land by a rent of 4rt'.' Thomas Gillibrand purchased a mes- suage in Chorley in 1563,'' but the name is not recorded among the freeholders in 1600. Soon afterwards the family became prominent. A pedigree was recorded in 1613^; in 1628 Thomas Gillibrand, a convicted recusant, was one of the more considerable land- owners,^ and in 1631 called upon to pay ^^lo as composition for having refused knighthood.^ The residence of the family was already called Chorley Hall.' The fidelity of the family to Roman Catholicism was shown in many ways, and was probably the reason of the sequestration ' and ultimate forfeiture 1" of Thomas Gillibrand's estates during the Commonwealth period. A pedigree was again recorded in 1664,^1 and Chorley Hall descended to John Gillibrand and Thomas his son, who in 1717 registered their estates as ' Papists.' The father, who, as above stated, pur- chased a moiety of the manor, was living at Astley Gillibrand. Ardent fwo iivQydi in saltire sable /lilted or. Hall, which he had in right of his wifc.'^ He died in 1732, and his will recites the settlement of the moiety of the manor of Chorley made on the marriage of his son Thomas with Alice Westby, and directs that it should go to his grandson Thomas, with remainder to another grandson ; Thomas Gillibrand the son of John had five sons and three daughters. His will, dated 1733, men- tions various of them, including a daughter Jane, who had married John Hawarden of Lower House in Widnes and had a son Thomas.''' Two of the five sons, Richard
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